The story of the boy lost two days in a forest with a bear

Casey Hathway is three years old and has spent two days away from her family. It was lost in a forest of North Carolina in the United States but thanks to a spectacular security operation was found and says that lived with a bear while I was waiting for him to be saved.

His disappearance took place last Tuesday, after leaving to play with his sister and cousin in the garden of his grandmother's house, located in the small municipality of Ernul. The boys have returned to the interior of the house, but Casey I was not with them.

The research started quickly. It is first the family who has traveled the forest for 45 minutes, but without leaving traces they called 911 make a complaint. "We lost my three-year-old grandson, I was walking in the woods and we can not find him," Grandma said by phone.

Search and Rescue teams go to work badyzing the area. Dozens of volunteers, the FBI and even the United States Marine Corps joined in the search for the baby, but the first 24 hours of research they have not worked well.

At the time of his demise, Casey was not too hot and the extremely cold weather was accentuating the desperation. The authorities continued the search with helicopters, unmanned aircraft and K-9 units, as reported by Craven County Emergency Management Director Stanley Kite. While a team of divers plied the areas with stagnant water.

Until the moment comes relief and tranquility. It was Thursday night, after one person reported hearing the cries of a baby in the forest, only half a kilometer where he had been last seen in Grandma's house.

According to agents who participated in the operation, Casey would have been found while he was there. he shouted his mother's name. "He was soaked, cold and tangled in thorny bushes when they found him," said Chip Hughes of Craven County.

But the most striking fact of the story was born when the baby was left with his family, who told them that during his lost days He was accompanied by a bear.

In a Facebook post, Breanna Hathaway, Casey's aunt, said, "He stated that he had two days with a bear. God sent him a friend to keep it safe. "The aunt said that she is"healthy, smiling and talkative, "in addition to being in the hospital" eating and watching TV shows ".

Even the Craven County Sheriff's Office posted on his Facebook page a picture of Casey with another of a bear under a rainbow and a Bible sentence that says, "Matthew 18: 2: He called a little boy and put him among them."